Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romans called their settlement ‘ Londinium ’ which , in due course of time , became known as London . |
| 2 | When Charles Temple , impelled by his love of logical discourse , asked himself what might be the ultimate evolution of the system of Indirect Rule , he replied that , by allowing ‘ natural conditions to exert their influence in a manner modified to meet the requirements of the native group ’ , Indirect rule would ‘ in due course of time ’ , render that group ‘ robust enough to stand by itself ’ . |
| 3 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |
| 4 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 5 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 6 | Seeking sponsorship is hard work yet the right investment of time and planning could help to set up an opportunity which will have long-lasting benefits to your artistic career and reputation . |
| 7 | In addition , we know that output is a decreasing function of time ( to the horizon ) , so we can express the various comparative static predictions in the form : |
| 8 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |
| 9 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |
| 10 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 11 | Even at the level of the Nikol'sk village Soviet a high proportion of time was spent on tax problems . |
| 12 | As D. S. Landes has pointed out , whereas the public clock could be used to open and close markets , to signal the start and end of work and to move people around , it signalled only moments rather than the continual passage of time . |
| 13 | Six eight you 've got to be careful with because you 're in to a different type of time . |
| 14 | In the early universe , in which there is a very marked arrow of time given by the expansion , these interactions could produce more particles than antiparticles . |
| 15 | Harris , Dr Semeonoff and J.S. Buist , Christian Aid owes much for their generous giving of time and skill . |
| 16 | Does a recording exist in a different dimension of time from a live performance ? |
| 17 | A different dimension of time : no . |
| 18 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 19 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 20 | What is not rubbish is that an attempt to operate modern cars on low octane fuel for any extended period of time is likely to have very severe consequences for the engine . |
| 21 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 22 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 23 | Miller observed that penal institutions ‘ can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time . |
| 24 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 25 | Like just about everything , they had a history and , like most other phenomena based on biological processes — for the ego and superego , although purely psychological agencies , nevertheless require a brain in which to function — evolved over an extended period of time . |
| 26 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 27 | It is far better for the buyer and the seller to avoid all these arguments by providing for an express period of time in which defects will be remedied . |
| 28 | The historical period of time between the two events is seen in terms of the internal experience of the individual Christian seeking assurance of God . |
| 29 | These involve awareness not only of a narrative point of time , but of circumstances which , in relation to that point , are past , future , or hypothetical . |
| 30 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |